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In 1933, Minnie Sun worked as a nurse in the baby ward of the Chinese Hospital. Bruce Lee would be born there seven years later.
hospitals

When Chinese Americans Were Blamed for 19th-Century Epidemics, They Built Their Own Hospital

The Chinese Hospital in San Francisco is still one-of-a-kind.
Claire Wang April 13, 2020
Point Alones was once home to the state's largest Chinatown. This photograph of Chinese fisherman was taken in 1875.
museums

A Chinese Fishing Village Regains Its Rightful Place in California History

A shipwreck brought Chinese immigrants to the Monterey area. Discrimination forced them to start over.
Claire Wang March 31, 2020
A celebration on St. Joseph’s Day in 2010.
festivals

How New Orleans Made a Medieval Sicilian Tradition Its Own

St. Joseph protects communities during times of sickness and famine.
Reina Gattuso June 9, 2025
Ravi Pandian and Chandran (right), shopkeepers at Burma Bazaar.
markets

India Meets Myanmar at a Bustling Bazaar in Chennai

Indians who were pushed out of Burma have made this market a multicultural haven.
Yamuna Matheswaran March 12, 2020
This windmill was shipped in pieces from Nørre Snede, Denmark, and reassembled in 1976 by over 300 volunteers.
food

Iowa's 'Denmark on the Prairie' Creates Hygge Away From Home

The tiny town has imported a 19th-century windmill and starred in two Danish TV shows.
Stacy Brooks February 19, 2020
Serbian 'pohovana piletina' leads a second, star-studded life in Barberton, Ohio.
food

How Serbian Immigrants Made an Ohio Town the ‘Fried Chicken Capital of the World'

From Vojvodina, with lard.
Luke Fater January 30, 2020
Chocolate babka French toast is a defining feature of Fletchers's klezmer brunch.
restaurants

A Montreal Museum Café Digs Into the Foods of the Jewish Diaspora

At Fletchers, cookies and bagels come with a side of food history.
Caitlin Stall-Paquet December 18, 2019
A visitor pays her respects at Assin Manso.
slavery

Retracing Ghana's Old Slave Trail

The story of slavery does not begin with the Middle Passage.
Chiké Frankie Edozien November 27, 2019
The sushi selection at Charoen Porn includes mattak (whale skin).
food

In Greenland, Thai Restaurants Serve Whale Skin Sushi and Reindeer Pad Krapow

A large immigrant community has made their cuisine popular.
Katie Lockhart September 30, 2019
islam

Alternating Currents

The rise and fall of Venezuela, as seen from a Colombia border city, its grand mosque, and the migrants and converts who worship there.
Megan Janetsky September 29, 2019
Donna Austfjord of Hnausa poses with handmade <em>pönnukökur</em>.
food

The Canadian Towns That Icelanders Visit for a Taste of Their Past

Specialties that are disappearing back home still thrive in "New Iceland."
Karen Burshtein July 19, 2019
Every curling club in Thunder Bay includes a Chinese restaurant.
restaurants

The Canadian Town Where Chinese Food Comes With a Side of Curling

Regional Chinese-Canadian cuisine is flourishing in some unlikely places.
Ann Hui July 17, 2019
The Star Hotel around 1910.
gold rush

How Basque Food Got to Northern Nevada

It all started with the Gold Rush.
At Shin Suzuran, Takano handles nettle leaves.
food

How Japanese Immigrants in the Amazon Created a New Cuisine

Native fish sashimi and green papaya pickles provided a taste of home.
Rafael Tonon December 28, 2018
The Chin Brothers Restaurant and Grocery serves as a community and culinary hub.
food

The Burmese Restaurant at the Heart of 'Chindianapolis'

In Indiana, a restaurant and grocery store offers refugees a taste of home.
Mar Nwe Aye and Charlotte Chadwick December 13, 2018